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#HorizonEU project. We aim to enhance society’s capacity to appraise, foresee, and respond to the threats posed by cascading impacts of pollinator decline.

🌐 https://butterfly-europe.eu/
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Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social · Apr 16
(1/2) Butterfly - what’s in a name? 🦋

The butterfly is a symbol of pollinators. Delicate and vulnerable, it is a beauty icon. It also symbolises the Butterfly Effect.
butterfly-project.bsky.social
The meeting is coming to a close. Huge thanks to everyone for a wonderful time! 😁

@jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social
January 30, 2026 at 2:14 PM
butterfly-project.bsky.social
Have a look at the brand new website of our sibling project, ProPollSoil!
www.propollsoil.eu
January 30, 2026 at 12:47 PM
butterfly-project.bsky.social
Here we go! The final day of the meeting. 🦋

Next meeting: Milano, last week of February 2027.
January 30, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social
Ugo Diniz and Claus Rasmussen @apids.bsky.social preparing the distribution of vane traps at our @butterfly-project.bsky.social Consortium Meeting in Aaarhus, for the upcoming field work in Butterfly's network of #pollinator living labs
Ugo Diniz and Claus Rasmussen standing in front of a large amount of blue vane traps
January 29, 2026 at 11:20 AM
butterfly-project.bsky.social
Some interesting interviews are taking place...

@jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social
@noasimondelso.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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Hi! How are you all today? The second day of the meeting is about to begin. 🐛🦋
January 29, 2026 at 7:44 AM
butterfly-project.bsky.social
We've just started!
January 28, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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Hey, Butterflyiers! Have you arrived in Aarhus yet? Our annual meeting starts tomorrow!🐛🦋
January 27, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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jeffollerton.bsky.social
A new UK government report warns that global #biodiversity loss threatens food security, economic stability, and geopolitical order. In my latest blog post I ask whether pollination should now be considered a #nationalsecurity issue:
jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/01/26/p...

@butterfly-project.bsky.social
Pollination as a matter of national security
In these turbulent times it’s hard to know where to focus one’s gaze. Do we concentrate on Ukraine? Greenland? Venezuela? Sudan? China? Russia? The Middle East? The rise of the far righ…
jeffollerton.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 2:57 PM
butterfly-project.bsky.social
A big cheer for our sibling project ProPollSoil! The Polish teams have got a press release ready for a good start⬇️

@jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social
forumakademickie.bsky.social Forum Akademickie @forumakademickie.bsky.social · 5d
Jak kondycja gleby kształtuje życie zapylaczy i stan pól uprawnych czy lasów?

Zbada to międzynarodowe konsorcjum #ProPollSoil z udziałem naukowców z @ioes-ju.bsky.social i Instytutu Ogrodnictwa – PIB.

forumakademickie.pl/zdrowa-gleba...

@filipiakzuza.bsky.social @michalfilipiak.bsky.social
Fot. Kenneth Kuba
January 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social
Mapping bee diversity with landscape-level models to
inform conservation

#pollinators
#beebiodiversity

How to incorporate bee biodiversity indicators into decision-making? A roadmap:

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Mapping bee diversity with landscape‐level models to inform conservation
Native bee conservation is complicated by limited distribution data and life history knowledge. However, recent state-wide pollinator surveys, combined with species distribution models that account f....
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:21 AM
butterfly-project.bsky.social
Ha! Great news!

Muchas gracias por hacer posible dos proyectos juntos 🐛🦋🥂
pdelarua.bsky.social Pilar De la Rúa @pdelarua.bsky.social · 8d
✨ Kick-off of the @butterfly-project.bsky.social & @ProPollSoil Living Lab in the Region of Murcia!
Bringing farmers, researchers, companies and public bodies together to co-create climate-resilient, sustainable almond farming-supporting pollinators 🐝🦋 and healthier soils 🌱
January 23, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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jpollecol.bsky.social
A new note on methodology by Gonzales-Vaquero et al. on "Curation and standardisation of plant–pollinator interaction data under FAIR principles: experience from Pampean agroecosystems" has just been published in JPE:
doi.org/10.26786/192...
January 21, 2026 at 8:44 AM
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⚡🦋 Electrostatic pollination by butterflies and moths

Butterflies and moths accumulate electrostatic charge as they fly, allowing them to pull pollen grains off flowers without even touching them. In other words, they can literally attract pollen through the air.

doi.org/10.1098/rsif...
January 22, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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ebdonana.bsky.social
#EBDPub Pollination networks change over time in ways that are consistently better than random: this rewiring enhances pollinator persistence.

It is not optimal, but it is key for biodiversity to persist in natural systems.

🟢 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
January 20, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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jappliedecology.bsky.social
Pollinators boost the reproduction of 75% of global crops, contributing up to 8% of total food production 🐝

A study on 24 crops found that higher pollinator abundance increases yields, with stronger effects in temperate regions & conventional farms 🌍🧪

🔗https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.70042
May 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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safeguard-pollinators.eu
🦠 A new #SafeguardResearch examines how viruses spread between managed honey bees and wild pollinators - and the results challenge some common assumptions.

👉 Read the full study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#EUPollinators #honeybees #wildpollinators
January 16, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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wildposh.eu
👀 In case you missed it: WildPosh featured in La Vanguardia

Back in September, our project coordinator, Professor Denis Michez, sat down with La Vanguardia to discuss how citizen science and AI are transforming biodiversity monitoring.

👉 Read more: buff.ly/JqgBPFF
January 16, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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beelifeeu.bsky.social
BeeLife exists to build bridges: between #science and #policy, #beekeepers and #institutions, #citizens and the systems that shape our #environment. Protecting pollinators is a collective effort and dialogue is our most powerful tool -> www.bee-life.eu/about
January 16, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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🐛 If we are serious about halting pollinator decline, we must stop treating soil as a passive backdrop.
For many pollinators, soil is their habitat. Ignoring it means overlooking one of the most fundamental pillars of pollinator biodiversity.

Photo credit: User:Famartin - Wikimedia Commons
January 15, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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respublications.bsky.social
New #OpenAccess research in #RESInsectConsDiv reports that #soil sand content is a driving force in structuring #bee #communities
doi.org/10.1111/icad.70051

#Conservation #InsectHabitats #Distribution
@manusaunders.bsky.social @wileyeco.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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pdelarua.bsky.social
🐝 Just learned that Lotmaria passim has been hanging out in the Canary Islands since at least 1998! 🏝️

We found this trypanosomatid in honey bee populations, marking the earliest known global record.
🐝 #honeybees #pollinators #ecosystemservices

doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
Redirecting
doi.org
January 11, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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pollinators-antenna.eu
💡 We continue our campaign highlighting research relevant to ANTENNA with a study from the Netherlands that examined over 4 million plant observations to assess the role of natural land cover in species conservation.

Discover the study and its findings: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

#ANTENNAexpertise
January 12, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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jeffollerton.bsky.social
In piece that I posted on my blog before Christmas, I made the offhand comment that “we need to think of #AI as a collaborator as much as a tool“. I decided to ask the question of #ChatGPT itself and we ended up having quite a long conversation on this topic:

jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/01/12/s...
Should AI be thought of as a science tool or collaborator? A conversation with ChatGPT
In a piece that I posted before Christmas, I made the offhand comment that “we need to think of AI as a collaborator as much as a tool”. It’s offhand in the fact that I’d no…
jeffollerton.co.uk
January 12, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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ukceh.bsky.social
🦋🌿Hiring 12 x Botanists or Entomologists for 2026 field surveys in England!

4-month, full-time roles from late April to early September.

Field sites in Yorkshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Kent/Sussex, Lincolnshire/Cambridge, Essex/Suffolk.

Apply now: ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca... 🧪
Recruitment poster for 12 botanical or entomological field surveyors, April-September 2026. Closing date: January 30, 2026.
January 9, 2026 at 9:36 AM